Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] hung_task: Display every hung task warning

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jan 14 2014 - 11:33:23 EST



* Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 01/13/2014 12:14 PM, atomlin@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Enable hung_task_warnings to display every hung
> > task warning when set to -1.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Aaron and I talked on IRC, and after some talking these patches
> now make sense to me :)
>
> The kernel apparently limits how many hung task warnings it
> will display at a time, when a timeout occurs. Aaron's patch
> allows that limit to be set to "unlimited", which will cause
> the kernel to display info about all hung tasks.

The changelog needs to be updated with such kind of descriptive
information.

Thanks,

Ingo
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